The sad part here is that I've begun to tune these security firms out, because it's clear that while many of them do good work, pulling Apple into the discussion is the best way to get immediate press. After all

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Okay, this is the most disturbing Apple security weakness I've heard about to date: a fairly straightforward Safari exploit that would let a hacker silently swipe information from your address book.

When we hear of a new security loophole that gives other people access to data on your personal computer we generally think of Microsoft and their various Internet Explorer security breaches but in this case it

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However, there were other speakers there as well, and perhaps the most interesting was from John Morton, the assistant secretary of Homeland Security's Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) division -- the group

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Secunia, a security service provider well known for tracking software defects, has ranked Apple as having the most reported vulnerabilities for its platforms during the first half of 2010. The majority of the flaws